Benton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 19 · 1992
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Home Builders Association of Mississippi Inc v. City of Madison Mississippi, The Procter & Gamble Company v. Amway Corporation (2001)
40 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 5 U.S.C. § 8116 · 5 U.S.C. § 8128
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc v. B Camp Barlow · Johnson v. Robison · Hospital Building Co. v. Trustees of Rex Hospital
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'unless it appears certain that the plaintiff cannot prove any set of facts in support of [its] claim which would entitle [it] to relief.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.